This virtual speech has been formed from quotes from the Columbian Green Ingrid Betancourt at the Global Greens Conference of 2001. She argues that Green Parties should not content themselves with being junior partners in coalition governments, but should seek to become majority parties . . . → Read More: Ingrid Betancourt – “The New Samurai”

William Jennings Bryan was politically active long before Green Parties had come into existence. However this speech illustrates an important Green theme. Green parties tend to be the most consistently anti-war and anti-militarist of the various parties described in the book.